•
the admission and discharge of persons brought for sobering-up can involve only one person at
a time;
•
persons brought for sobering up are placed in small single rooms, or in larger double rooms
(where they have to keep safe distance);
•
personal protection equipment (gloves, masks, disposable aprons, overalls, visors) has to be
used, and hands must be properly washed and disinfected;
•
the rooms, and in particular frequently touched surfaces, should be regularly cleaned, ozoned
and disinfected with virucidal disinfectants;
•
a separate room should be assigned to persons with a suspected infection, until the arrival of the
relevant services;
•
the visits by outsiders are limited361.
In March 2020, the staff of the Centre for Solving Alcoholism-Related Problems in Słupsk took
part in a training conducted by employees of the city’s Sanitary and Epidemiological Service Station
and the Crisis Intervention Department of the Municipal Office in Słupsk in recognizing symptoms of a
coronavirus infection and procedures to be followed in such cases.
At all sobering-up stations and similar facilities the staff had personal protection equipment, i.e.
masks, visors, disposable aprons, disposable gloves, protection overalls, disinfecting liquids, gels and
soap for personal use and for surface cleaning. The facilities did not have any coronavirus tests362.
According to the information provided by the President of the Association of Directors and
Chief Accountants of Sobering-up Facilities in Poland, every person brought for sobering up has body
temperature measured. Also, each police patrol bringing a person for sobering up is required to check
whether the person is not in quarantine363.
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THE CASE OF THE PERSON DETAINED AFTER A PUBLIC PROTEST
The National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture monitored the situation of persons
detained by the police in connection with citizens’ protests that took place after the Constitutional
Tribunal's judgment tightening the abortion law364. During a monitoring visit, the NMPT was informed
361
Ibid.
362
Ibid.
363
Ibid.
364
Judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 22 October 2020 in case K1/20. See the document entitled Report
of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture on ad hoc visits to the rooms for detained persons or
persons brought for sobering up within the units reporting to the Warsaw Police Headquarters and to the
Voivodeship (i.e. Regional) Police Headquarters in Radom of 10 January 2021, KMP.570.11.2020.MZ.
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